Our Collective Heart
Our Collective Heart, located in Cincinnati, Ohio provides educational opportunities to improve all aspects of human health and living an embodied life via a variety of activities, experiences, and study connected to physical, mental, and spiritual well-being, fostering compassionate, sustainable, and nourishing communities for the benefit of all beings and the earth.
Mission/Vision: Our Collective Heart holds a vision to create a world of connection by inviting people to engage in relationship and be active participants in their life and the lives of others. We aspire for people to be intuitively aware of their choices so they may manifest the future they desire. Through active engagement, respect, community, and inclusive compassion for all beings, we offer classes, workshops, and events to inspire a world of meaningful connection. We believe this leads to people making healing, healthy, and embodied heart-centered lifestyle choices that create a more peaceful world.
Purpose
- To be an active participant in the world.
- To assist in getting people connected.
- To build community.
- To make a difference, enhance the lives of others.
- To have real connections and conversations.
- To act on what matters.
- To inspire plant-based vegan compassionate living.
- To bring the mind/body/soul of yoga to the community on and off the mat.
- Create a brave space to offer trauma-informed yoga, meditation, and mindfulness practices.
- To create a space and a future based on possibility, not fear.
- To work in collaboration with fellow peacemakers, healers, light-bearers, and trailblazers.
- To offer online and in person classes, workshops, courses, and trainings in collaboration with World Peace Yoga.
- Yoga (mindful movement), meditation, breathwork, mindfulness, healthy lifestyle, etc.
Allows Us To:
- Offer classes, workshops, and events to inspire a world of meaningful connection.
- Hold Yoga and the Common Good workshops, series, and trainings based on Peter Block’s book, Activating the Common Good: Reclaiming Control of Our Collective Well-Being.
- Have an annual scholarship tuition fund to offer yoga (on and off the mat) training to people to take this work out into the world.
- Offer sliding-scale as well as free community classes, workshops, and events.
- Bring the practices of yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and healthy lifestyle to underserved communities.
- Organize the annual free community Cincy VegFest event.
- Be a force of freedom, liberation, and change in the community.
Donate Today
A 501c3 non-profit dedicated to enhancing mind-body-soul health and living a life of connection, fostering liberation through compassion for all.
Accepting donations via check, Zelle, Square or Venmo. Please note that check is preferred as Square and Venmo take a percentage of your donation.
To make a donation by check please contact: connect@ourcollectiveheart.org
Yoga for the Common Good
Workshops and trainings to inspire change and create a world of meaningful connection.
Plant-Based Lifestyle
Vegan potlucks, cooking classes, and small group dining to enhance your health and create a more compassionate plate.
Compassion for All Certification
Begin your journey to become a certified yoga teacher with our heart-centered, self-paced 200-hour training.
Cincy VegFest
Celebrate and share plant-based living through food, music, yoga, and heart-centered education. The annual Cincy VegFest
- Fosters connections by creating a supportive space for people to explore a compassionate plant-based lefestyle.
- Provides a physical space for people with shared values to gather and feel a stronger sense of belonging.
- Supports and promotes local businesses as well as small vegan-centric businesses.
- Connects people at a more personal level through food, music, and yoga.
- Offers education and resources via food demos, speakers, and elevating vendors and exhibitors, such as sanctuaries.
- Inspires action, builds local activism, and creates opportunities for people to make an impact through volunteering, presenting, or highlighting their business or organization.
Land Acknowledgment
Ohio, whose name originates from the Iroquoian word ‘ohi-yo’, meaning ‘good rivers’, is a testament to the deep connection between the land and the Indigenous peoples who have inhabited it for centuries. This land, rich in rivers and natural resources, has been a hub for gatherings, ceremonies, trade, and cultural exchange. It is a place steeped in the stories, traditions, and lives of the original inhabitants.
Ohio and the Cincinnati region are ancestral lands of several Indigenous Nations, including the Shawnee, Delaware (Lenni Lenape), Potawatomi, Miami, Wyandot, Seneca, Chippewa (Ojibwe or Anishinaabeg), Ottawa, and the Wapakoneta. These Nations and their ancestors have maintained a profound spiritual and physical connection to this land, evident in their enduring presence and cultural heritage. These Tribal Nations/People still thrive today, even though they’ve been forcibly removed from this land, their treaties dishonored, and their ancestors dishonored.
As a step toward healing and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, we recognize and honor the enduring connection these Nations have to this land. May we reflect on our dedication to understanding, preserving, and celebrating the rich culture of Native Indigenous communities.
This Land Acknowledgment was created with guidance from the Urban Native Collective.